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9868
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681

Overview

Ori Friedman is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and primarily works within the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary subfields, focusing notably on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology. Other areas of interest include sociology and political science, social psychology, and general decision sciences.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of specialized topics, with significant contributions in the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, child and animal learning development, and decision-making and behavioral economics. Additional topics in their research portfolio include social and intergroup psychology, misinformation and its impacts, education and critical thinking development, as well as epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics.

Friedman has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Child Development
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Among recent publications demonstrating the scope and focus of their work are:

  • "Knowledge before belief," 2020, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • "Expert or Esoteric? Philosophers Attribute Knowledge Differently Than All Other Academics," 2020, Cognitive Science
  • "A Similarity Heuristic in Children's Possibility Judgments," 2021, Child Development
  • "Ownership and Value in Childhood," 2022, Annual Review of Developmental Psychology
  • "Children's Beliefs About Possibility Differ Across Dreams, Stories, and Reality," 2020, Child Development

Throughout their career, Friedman has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Notable frequent co-authors include Stephanie Denison, Emily Stonehouse, Claudia G. Sehl, Brandon W. Goulding, and Tiffany Doan.

Best Publications

  • Core mechanisms in ‘theory of mind’

    Alan M. Leslie;Ori Friedman;Tim P. German

  • Determining who owns what: do children infer ownership from first possession?

    Ori Friedman;Karen R. Neary

  • Knowledge before belief

    Jonathan Phillips;Wesley Buckwalter;Fiery Cushman;Ori Friedman

  • The folk conception of knowledge

    Christina Starmans;Ori Friedman

  • The conceptual underpinnings of pretense: pretending is not 'behaving-as-if'.

    Ori Friedman;Alan M. Leslie

  • Mechanisms of Belief-Desire Reasoning Inhibition and Bias

    Ori Friedman;Alan M. Leslie

  • First possession: An assumption guiding inferences about who owns what

    Ori Friedman

  • Preschoolers infer ownership from "control of permission".

    Karen R Neary;Ori Friedman;Corinna L Burnstein

  • Young Children Give Priority to Ownership When Judging Who Should Use an Object

    Karen R. Neary;Ori Friedman

  • Theory of mind and the right cerebral hemisphere: Refining the scope of impairment

    Richard Griffin;Ori Friedman;Jon Ween;Ellen Winner

  • Recognition of pretend and real actions in play by 1- and 2-year-olds: Early success and why they fail

    Francesca M. Bosco;Ori Friedman;Alan M. Leslie

  • Processing demands in belief‐desire reasoning: inhibition or general difficulty?

    Ori Friedman;Alan M. Leslie

  • Toddlers Assert and Acknowledge Ownership Rights

    Hildy Ross;Ori Friedman;Aimee Field

  • First possession, history, and young children's ownership judgments.

    Ori Friedman;Julia W. Van de Vondervoort;Margaret Anne Defeyter;Karen R. Neary

  • Cerebral Lateralization and Theory of Mind

    Hiram Brownell;Richard Griffin;Ellen Winner;Ori Friedman

  • Young children's understanding of ownership

    Shaylene E. Nancekivell;Julia W. Van de Vondervoort;Ori Friedman

  • Just pretending can be really learning: children use pretend play as a source for acquiring generic knowledge.

    Shelbie L. Sutherland;Ori Friedman

  • Necessary for Possession: How People Reason About the Acquisition of Ownership

    Ori Friedman

  • A developmental shift in processes underlying successful belief‐desire reasoning

    Ori Friedman;Alan M. Leslie

  • Knowledge central: A central role for knowledge attributions in social evaluations

    John Turri;Ori Friedman;Ashley Keefner

  • Is probabilistic evidence a source of knowledge

    Ori Friedman;John Turri

  • Is young children's recognition of pretense metarepresentational or merely behavioral? Evidence from 2- and 3-year-olds' understanding of pretend sounds and speech

    Ori Friedman;Karen R. Neary;Corinna L. Burnstein;Alan M. Leslie

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan M. Leslie
Alan M. Leslie Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jonathan A. Fugelsang
Jonathan A. Fugelsang University of Waterloo
Hiram Brownell
Hiram Brownell Boston College
Hildy S. Ross
Hildy S. Ross University of Waterloo
Ellen Winner
Ellen Winner Boston College
Francesca Happé
Francesca Happé King's College London
Joshua Knobe
Joshua Knobe Yale University
David A. Moscovitch
David A. Moscovitch University of Waterloo
Laurie R. Santos
Laurie R. Santos Yale University
Derek J. Koehler
Derek J. Koehler University of Waterloo

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